Judges 18:5:8Judg.18.5.W8TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER a-NA-khnu
- clause
ve-ne-de-A ha-tats-li-AKH dar-KE-nu a-SHER a-NA-khnu hol-KHIM a-LE-ha
- sentence
va-yo-ME-ru LO she-AL-NA ve-e-lo-HIM ve-ne-de-A ha-tats-li-AKH dar-KE-nu a-SHER a-NA-khnu hol-KHIM a-LE-ha
Exegesis
The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ’ăsher} ‘which’ and the participle holkim {הֹלְכִ֥ים | hôlḵîm} ‘going’ form a relative participial clause modifying darkenu {דַּרְכֵּ֔נוּ | darkēnû} ‘our way.’
In context — Judges 18:5
And they said to him, “Please inquire of God for us, so that we may know whether our way on which we are going will succeed.”
About this coordinate
Judges 18:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 18:5, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (asher) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Judg.18.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.5.W8.S1) and character.